Release Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009
BookMasters, one of the largest distributors of books in the United States, have completed migration of their 105 user business system from D3 to QM
.
Running on a quad core Xeon system with five 32Gb Managed Flash Technology drives (www.easyco.com), the migration has significantly reduced costs and is delivering outstanding performance. Application level read rates averaging in excess of 95,000 records per second have been recorded. Some reports that previously took several hours to complete now run in just a few minutes.
About Ladybridge Systems Ltd
Ladybridge Systems was founded in 1992 by former Prime Computer personnel and is headquartered in Hardingstone, Northampton, England. To date, Ladybridge Systems provides training, consultancy, development, and maintenance services to MultiValue databases in the UK and worldwide. While the OpenQM MultiValue database is their primary area of activity, they are an IBM business partner providing services to users of IBM's UniVerse and UniData products.
Ladybridge Systems remains a small privately owned company, offering a personal level of service to clients around the world. As a member of the TRUST Group, a network of independent computer companies working together, they are able to offer the vast range resources of a large company while still maintaining the direct, friendly approach of a small business. This also allows Ladybridge Systems to operate with very low overhead and offer high-value services to organizations at much lower charges.
For more information, visit http://www.ladybridge.com
About OpenQM
OpenQM is a high performance multivalue database environment with a
low price tag and close compatibility with other products.
Available for Windows, Linux, Mac, AIX and PDA, a commercial QM
licence includes the AccuTerm terminal emulator at no extra cost.
The QMClient API allows development of VB, C and web front ends.
OpenQM is the only multivalue database available both as a fully
supported commercial product and in open source form under the
General Public Licence.
For more information, visit http://www.openqm.com
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